The basics to understanding Pay Per Click fundamentals

What the buzzwords mean

Dreamhost is a private company based in the Los Angeles area of the United States of America that provides web hosting and is also a domain name registrar. The company hosts a lot of servers, estimated to be around 700 000.these domain names are on a network of mostly Linux based servers.

What sets the company apart is the one of a kind control panel that includes integrated billing and support ticket systems. Most of the hosted domains operate on a shared hosting environment while a few have dedicated servers.

Google analytics is a service aimed at marketers providing detailed statistics about visitors to a website. This service is offered free of charge by Google and is capable of a range of functions including tracking visitors from diverse sources such as pay per click networks, search engines and email and viral marketing.

How it works

Pay per click secrets aren’t really secret once a few fundamentals are understood. The source of the mystery and confusion is ‘not knowing’ how it really works, or if you do being unsure of how effective the medium really is. The workings of the model are quite simple and easy to grasp.

The site owner writes a title and description then selects a keyword searchers must enter in order to bring up that particular listing. The next step is to bid against other site owners for its rank in search results. The bid amount refers to the money to be paid for each click on the listing. As is to be expected there is fierce competition for good rankings on common keywords, which are very popular.

The way to get ahead of the competition is to bid on plenty of keywords, which aren’t as massively popular but are still searched for. These keywords will have a cheaper bid price and ensure that you can still get good listings.

There are several tools to find these keywords, but the most successful results come from extensive research and playing with different combinations of words. The next step is to bid to put these keywords in an optimal position on a search engine. If the highest place is out of your budget its worth bidding for another space as long as its on the first results page which always attracts the vast majority of searchers.

Google analytics works by including a hidden piece of Java script code known as a snippet to every page. This code collects data, which is sent back to the data servers for processing. The processing is a continuous function so it can be available in real time. The main obstacle to the efficient running of the system is the fact that there are programs, which can block the application by deleting or blocking the cookies. Dreamhost offers hosting with increasing storage space and bandwidth every week.

In conclusion

If utilized together Dreamhost, Google applications and the pay per click synergy can work in synergy to truly make a site competitive.

November 22, 2008 · Filed Under Analytics